"Water resource management is not just a local problem or a
foreign problem. As anyone in the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program
will tell you, it's an everywhere problem."

"'You don't have to go far to find the issues,' says John Durant, a professor of civil
and environmental engineering. 'But if you want to go far, you'll find them there, too.'..."

Making a Splash

"When he talks about water, Paul Kirshen doesn't just have passion. He has facts.
'By 2025, over two-thirds of the world's population will live in areas where there's water
stress because of increases in population and climate change,' says the Tufts civil and
environmental engineering professor. 'Forty percent of the world's crops are produced with
irrigation. Two-thirds of the world's withdrawals of water are used for irrigation.'..."

The Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program is a graduate research and education program that provides Tufts students with interdisciplinary perspectives and tools to manage water-related problems around the world.